The court of arbitration for sport expects to give verdicts within a month in two cases of Pakistan cricketers banned for spot-fixing against England.

Cas says the former Pakistan captain Salman Butt is attending his appeal hearing on Friday to challenge a 10-year ban by the International Cricket Council. The ICC suspended five years of the sanction.

Butt's team-mate the fast bowler Mohammad Asif attended his appeal against a seven-year ban on Thursday. The ICC suspended two years.

Butt, Asif and a third Pakistan player, Mohammad Amir, were found guilty in an English criminal trial of arranging to bowl no-balls for betting scams during an August 2010 Test at Lord's. They were incarcerated for between three and seven months. Cas says the same three-lawyer panel is hearing both appeals but judging them separately.